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Exponential raises $14M to simplify decentralized finance
Exponential, a decentralized finance investment risk assessment and discovery platform, said today that it has raised $14 million in seed funding to simplify entry into the new crypto ecosystem that has been otherwise fraught with complexity and hazards. Crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm led the round with participation from other big names in the industry, including ...
Ransomware hackers leak 500GB of data stolen from LAUSD school system
The ransomware gang Vice Society published a trove of data and documents Sunday morning that were stolen from the Los Angeles Unified School District during a cyberattack in early September. LAUSD Superintendent Alberta M. Carvalho confirmed that the stolen data had been released in a statement on Twitter and said experts were examining its contents. ...
Web3 security service Blowfish raises $11.8M to protect crypto wallets
Web3 wallet security provider Blowfish said today it has raised $11.8 million to launch its service to protect against malicious transactions and fraud. Crypto-focused venture capital firm Paradigm led the round with participation from Dragonfly, Uniswap Labs Ventures, Hypersphere and 0x Labs. Blowfish provides firewall technology that identifies dangerous transactions in real time by offering ...
Microsoft confirms attackers actively targeting vulnerabilities in Exchange
Microsoft Corp. confirmed late Thursday that two unpatched Exchange Server vulnerabilities exist and that they’re currently being exploited in the wild by unknown attackers. The attacks were discovered by researchers at Vietnamese cybersecurity company GTSC in August as part of a response to a customer threat incident. The company said the vulnerabilities were being used ...
Google to shutter game streaming service Stadia in January
Google LLC is shutting down Stadia, its cloud-based game streaming service, which will wind down on Jan. 18. “While Stadia’s approach to streaming games for consumers was built on a strong technology foundation, it hasn’t gained the traction with users that we expected so we’ve made the difficult decision to begin winding down our Stadia ...
Jack Dorsey’s TBD partners with Circle to push global adoption of the USDC stablecoin
Jack Dorsey’s payment company Block Inc.’s subsidiary TBD announced Wednesday that it’s partnering with Circle Internet Financial Ltd., the issuer of the United States-dollar pegged stablecoin USD Coin, in order to give a boost to widespread global adoption of the cryptocurrency. The two companies announced the partnership Wednesday during Circle’s Converge22 conference in San Francisco. As ...
OpenAI removes waitlist for DALL-E 2, its powerful text-to-image AI generator
The research team at OpenAI LLC announced today that the waitlist for its powerful artificial intelligence-driven natural language-to-image generator DALL-E has been removed and now users can sign up and start using it immediately. “More than 1.5 million users are now actively creating over 2 million images a day with DALL-E — from artists and ...
Cloudflare releases Turnstile, an ‘invisible’ alternative to CAPTCHAs
CAPTCHAs, which force people to click buttons to prove they’re not robots in order to access web pages and services, often get in the way of getting to sites and services. To fix this, Cloudflare Inc. said today, it’s testing out a new solution named Turnstile that may do away with these frustrating visual puzzles ...
CloudBees buys ReleaseIQ DevOps orchestration platform
Enterprise software delivery company CloudBees Inc. today announced it has acquired ReleaseIQ, a low-code software-as-a-service release orchestration solution for DevOps teams that will help extend the company’s current software delivery solutions. CloudBees develops the popular Jenkins continuous integration and delivery platform that automates code development and deployment pipelines. This is part of a practice known ...
Coral raises $20M to launch Backpack, a wallet for executable NFTs
Coral, the makers of the Anchor development framework built for the Solana blockchain, have an interesting proposition: They want to create nonfungible tokens that can launch applications. To make this happen, Coral raised $20 million in funding co-led by FTX Ventures and Jump Capital today in a strategic funding round. Multicoin Capital, Anagram and K5 ...